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OVEN FOR VAPOR STOVES. No. 360,728. Patented Apr. 5,1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN RINGEN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

OVEN FOR VlAPOR-STOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,728, dated April 5, 1887.

Application filed Novnnber 30, 1856. Serial No. 220,278. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN RINGEN, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ovens for Vapor-Stoves, of which the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a'perspective view ofthe oven, showing the supporting-bar holding the ovendoor in its horizontal open position. Figs. 2 and 3 are transverse sections of the oven, sh owing the same relatively open and shut, with the relative position of the supporting-bar in the two positions.

This invention relates to an attachment for supporting the oven-doors of vapor-stoves; and the invention consists in features of novelty, hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

that surrounds the door. \Vhen the door is closed, the end of the bar hangs verticallyinside the casingplate; but when the door is opened and lowered the end of the bar rises until it engages against the under side of the floor-plate of the oven,.which arrests the pro gress of the door and holds it in a horizontal position, so that it may be used as a shelf.

A'spring-rod, 9, secured to the top of the oven by brackets 10, has a pendent curved end that engages the door when it is closed and holds it in that position. i

The supporting-bar has abundant leverage to hold the door in its open position, and has not the disadvantage of largely adverse leverage, that is the cause of frequent breakages with the horizontal oven'door hinges in common use.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the oven 1, the floor 7 above the bottom, and the front drop-door, 2, having a supporting-bar, 4, extending beneath the floor for sustaining the door in a horizontal position as a shelf, substantially as described.

JOHN BINGEN.

Inpresence of GEO. H. KNIGHT, EDw. S. KNIGHT.. 

